Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

Quote by Henry David Thoreau

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If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work...

If it is surely the means to the highest end we know, can any work...

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear...

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear...

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

We should distrust any enterprise that requires new clothes.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

It is the greatest of all advantages to enjoy no advantage at all.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may...

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may...

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the...

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the...

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so...

The kindness I have longest remembered has been of this sort, the sort unsaid; so...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in...

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth.

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get...

Morality is how you go about getting what you want without screwing anybody to get...

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns...

The light which puts out our eyes is darkness to us. Only that day dawns...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that...

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he...

If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he...

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship?

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the...

A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the...